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Did Skull and Bones dig up Geronimo?

HARTFORD, Conn. - A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University's ultra-secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo.

The letter, written by one member of Skull and Bones to another, purports that the skull and some of the Indian leader's remains were spirited from his burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to a stone tomb in New Haven that serves as the club's headquarters..

"The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club ... is now safe inside the (Tomb) together with his well worn femurs, bit & saddle horn," according to the letter, written by Winter Mead.

But Mead was not at Fort Sill and researcher Marc Wortman, who found the letter last fall, said Monday he is skeptical the bones are actually those of the famed Indian fighter.

E-mails at odds with ex-FEMA chief's comments

WASHINGTON - Ex-FEMA director Michael Brown disputed that floodwaters had breached New Orleans' levees in the early hours after Katrina roared ashore, e-mails released Tuesday show.

The 928 pages of e-mails, obtained and released by the Center for Public Integrity, also portray Brown as obsessed with media coverage in the days leading up to and immediately after the Aug. 29, 2005, disaster.

Later that morning, at 9:50 a.m., a FEMA staffer at the National Hurricane Center sent an alert from a local TV station report that "a levee breach occurred along the industrial canal" near the city's Lower 9th Ward.

More than two hours later, at 12:09 p.m., Brown sent a message back to one of his aides, saying: "I'm being told here water over not a breach."

The aide, Michael Lowder, replied: "Ok. You probably have better info there. Just wanted to pass you what we hear."

[Last modified May 10, 2006, 07:08:57]